PlayStation UK's managing director Fergal Gara has gone on record stating that a declining Nintendo might affect the market with regards to younger audiences. After all, nobody can deny that a significant portion of video gamers got started with their love for gaming on a Nintendo system. Whether your first adventure was saving the princess in Donkey Kong or embarking on a journey with your Pikachu in Pokemon, many gamers can say everything started with a red N.

With franchises like God of War and Uncharted being major PlayStation sellers, Sony doesn't really focus on making games for kids like Nintendo. Picking up the slack Nintendo might leave behind is a challenge Gara feels is worth taking on:

“That is the challenge to us. We need to bring maybe more family-friendly, more casual experiences into the market. I think there’s a big market segment there that we should take the challenge to engage and I see lots of potential to do that.”

If there's no Mario or Pikachu to captivate kids, there will be many that may never pick up a video game. Not only that, but we may have never seen the Move or Kinect if it weren't for the over 100 million Wii systems out there. A world without Nintendo games isn't a pleasant thought to entertain. We've already lost SEGA from the hardware world. At least their classics are on Steam, but it wouldn't feel right to play Mega Man or Super Mario Bros with a keyboard should that become our only option.

Phillip Moody, exactly where did you get your information? All the tycoon games, Little Big Planet, all the Lego games, Minecraft...The list could go on and on. Do your research before making an uninformed comment.

It really depends on what your talking about when you say "kids", since games like Ratchet and Clank are actually Rated T and a lot of Nintendo's games are basically designed to be appropriate for anyone old enough to hold a controller.

Nintendo designs games for kids with a few to entice or satisfy older player/parents, while Sony and Microsoft basically do the opposite.

I doubt Nintendo is going anywhere either, for one thing they're too financially healthy for that. At worst they'd likely just drop home consoles and exclusively make handhelds. They could probably even go Japan only if they had to.

I have this odd feeling though that Nintendo's decline isn't going to turn around and in a decade or so, they'll fade away and be bought by Apple of MS. The question on everyone's minds however, and one of the biggest stories in gaming history is where would Pokemon go if Nintendo ceases to exist? Imagine Pokemon on PS5.